SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines

Chapter 1.5.5. SVC: Host zones

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14 SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines 1.5.2 Pre- zoning tips and shortcuts Now, we describe several tips and shortcuts. Aliases The biggest time- saver when creating your SVC zones is to use zoning aliases, if they are available on your particular switch. They will make your zoning much easier to configure and understand, and the likelihood of errors will be much less. The aliases we are suggesting you create here take advantage of the fact that aliases can contain multiple members, just like zones. Create aliases for each of the following: One that holds all the SVC ports on each fabric One for each storage controller ( or controller blade, in the case of DS4x000 units) One ...